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Sounds and sweet airs: Shakespeare and music

Edit The Guardian 20 Apr 2016
We both start and finish with Verdi, who had a long relationship with Shakespeare’s plays ... Falstaff, which concludes our concert, was Verdi’s last opera, premiered when he was nearly 80. I think that by then Verdi was seeing all things from his perspective as an elderly, wise man ready to leave this world, and the philosophical essence he draws from ......

The Latest: Cuban doctors among victims of Ecuador quake

Edit Denver Post 20 Apr 2016
Click photo to enlarge. A relative kisses a photo of Kexly Valentino affixed to her coffin, in Montecristi, Ecuador, Tuesday, April 19, 2016 ... (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd). «12345» ... 6.55 a.m ... ———Earthquake survivor Pablo Rafael Cordova Canizares smiles as he rests at the Verdi Cevallos Balda hospital in Portoviejo, Ecuador, Monday, April 18, 2016 ... (AP Photo/Emilio D. Garcia) (Emilio D. Garcia/AP). 3.55 a.m. The U.S ... ....

GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY FOR FIRST-EVER SOLAR PROJECT INVOLVES MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDERS (Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source ... 'This project continues Liberty's commitment to renewable energy sources,' states Greg Sorensen, President of Liberty Utilities-CA ... Liberty Utilities is your local electric company serving approximately 49,000 customers on the California side of Lake Tahoe and adjacent areas to the south and north including the cities of Markleeville, Woodfords, Topaz, Coleville, Walker, parts of Truckee & Verdi, Portola & Loyalton ... (noodl....

Ecuador earthquake: How life near epicentre changed in under a minute

Edit BBC News 20 Apr 2016
Driving into Pedernales is like entering a warzone. But this shocking devastation was wrought by nature. This quake lasted less than a minute - and hardly any house is intact. Once-private spaces are open for everyone to see. Shower rooms with no walls ... "As we get access to more remote places, we're going to find more needs, and more people who have died," says Nicolas Verdy of the Canadian Red Cross, who expects the death toll to rise ... ....

Shakespeare 400: festivals, plays and attractions around the country

Edit The Guardian 20 Apr 2016
Stratford-upon-Avon. New attractions to mark the big occasion include the Other Place, an RSC studio theatre that has been closed for nearly 10 years ... Twitter ... Verdi described Macbeth as “one of mankind’s greatest creations”. To mark the 400th anniversary, the Welsh National Orchestra will be performing Macbeth Verdi, sung in Italian with English and Welsh subtitles (at Wales Millennium Centre 10-24 Sep), before touring the production ... ....

Meet Margaret Medlyn—Head of Classical Voice (Victoria University of Wellington)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source. Victoria University of Wellington). Margaret Medlyn is a highly acclaimed singer with an extensive operatic and concert repertoire who has performed with major orchestras and top choirs in Australasia, as well as the English National Opera, at Covent Garden and Vienna State Opera ... In 2012, she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of her services to opera ... singing Verdi and singing Wagner' ... (noodl....

Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins

Edit Newsday 20 Apr 2016
(Credit. Getty Images / Lucy Nicholson). Bleeding hearts everywhere wept a little more than usual in the summer of 2009 when Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, a couple for 23 years, announced they were splitting up. While they never married, the two actors, who met on the set of "Bull Durham," had two children together. (Credit. Getty Images / Michel Gangne) ... They have two adopted children. (Credit ... ADVERTISEMENT ... Getty Images / Pierre Verdy)....

George Clinton and P-Funk: Forever On the Verge of Getting It On

Edit Houston Press 20 Apr 2016
A A. Facebook-. Twitter -. More shares recommend reddit email -. -. ON TUNING UP ... Gifting etiquette is strict when it comes to harmonic clarity ... This slightly lower 432A is alternately known as philosophical pitch, scientific pitch, studio pitch, Saveur pitch, or a Verdi tuning, for the Italian composer wrote his Requiem in the lower registry of 432A, purposefully protesting the trend toward a higher tuning ... Upcoming Events ... 25, 7.30pm ... ....

LA Opera receives Building Opera Audiences grant from OPERA America (Los Angeles Opera)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source. Los Angeles Opera). 30th Anniversary Season. LA OPERA RECEIVES BUILDING OPERA AUDIENCES. GRANT FROM OPERA AMERICA. $300,000 Awarded to Eight Organizations to. Implement Innovative Audience Building Activities ... LA Opera is one of eight organizations to receive funding totaling $300,000 ... production in four decades of Verdi's The Two Foscari, the world premiere of Daniel Catán's Il Postino and the company's first complete Ring cycles....

Rifle-wielding father threatens son in Providence, police say

Edit The Providence Journal 19 Apr 2016
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A 30-year-old man told police his father threatened to kill him and pointed a rifle at him Monday night, police said.Officers headed to 27 Atlantic Ave. in the city’s Elmwood neighborhood a little after 9.30 p.m. The son, Tou Y. Khang, told police that he was afraid and that the argument had been over money, and paying household bills, according to a police report provided by Maj. Thomas Verdi ... ....

Florence Foster Jenkins: How the world's worst singer sold-out Carnegie Hall

Edit The Independent 19 Apr 2016
Wealth is the creator of islands; it shipwrecks the privileged as to isolate them in their own taffeta-lined delusions ... Of Mozart, Verdi, and Brahms ... Nothing would dampen these pursuits, not even author Stephen Pile's declaration that she was "the world's worst opera singer" ... ....

Florence Foster Jenkins: How the world's worst singer sold out Carnegie Hall

Edit The Independent 19 Apr 2016
Wealth is the creator of islands; it shipwrecks the privileged as to isolate them in their own taffeta-lined delusions ... Of Mozart, Verdi, and Brahms ... Nothing would dampen these pursuits, not even author Stephen Pile's declaration that she was "the world's worst opera singer" ... ....

San Francisco Opera Announces Audited Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2014-15 (San Francisco Opera Orchestra)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Apr 2016
Recorded in impressive high-definition and in 5.1 surround sound at the War Memorial Opera House, the television specials showcase the imaginative stagings and all-star casts from San Francisco Opera's recent productions of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Verdi's Attila, Boito's Mefistofele and Verdi's Rigoletto....
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